CONDON, Robert Likens, a Representative from California; born in Berkeley, Alameda County,
Calif., November 10, 1912; attended the public schools; was graduated from the
University of California at Berkeley in 1934 and from the law college of the
same university in 1938; editor in chief of the California Law Review in 1938;
admitted to the California bar in 1938; attorney for National Labor Relations
Board 1938-1942; with the Office of Price Administration in 1942 as chief
enforcement attorney for northern California and later as regional investigator
for five Western States; entered the United States Army as a private in
December 1942; served overseas in the European Theater with Company G, Three
Hundred and Tenth Infantry Regiment, Seventy-eighth Division, in France,
Belgium, and Germany; discharged in February 1946 as a staff sergeant;
decorated with two battle stars and the Silver Star; engaged in private
practice of law in 1946 in Martinez, Calif.; member of California State
assembly 1948-1952; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third Congress (January
3, 1953-January 3, 1955); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1954 to the
Eighty-fourth Congress; resumed law practice in Martinez, Calif.; died in
Walnut Creek, Calif., June 3, 1976; cremated; ashes scattered at sea, three
miles beyond the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, Calif.